The 12 Biggest Breakthroughs in Video Technology

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Videotape Allows Live Events to Be Recorded Two the playback image was poor Three the sound didn't stay in synch with the picture Television started out as a live technology Viewers saw things as they actually happened It also meant that if you missed something you missed it forever Television companies wanted to find a way to record programs and events In 1951 the Ampex company came out with a videotape recorder But it had three problems One it took a mile of tape to record four minutes of video Ginsburg's Ampex VRX 1000 the first successful videotape recorder Ampex hired Charles Ginsburg to fix these problems One of the people Ginsburg hired was Ray Dolby Dolby went on to invent a noise reduction system for audiotape that we still use today In 1956 Ginsburg's team made a new machine It solved the three problems of the first videotape recorder The machines were very AMPEX